Reply to "Poll - Trout, Cabrera or other for AL MVP"

fenwaysouth10,000+ posts

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I am curious how the world tennis ranking is done? Do they break down defensive versus offensive, how many aces a person get, backhand versus front strokes win? Grass versus clay? Or just the fact that one wins and the other person loses? I heard that the world tennis ranking is sometimes controversial too

bball123,

In tennis, the WTA (woman) and ATP (men) have a calculation on wins and tournaments entered to rank players. It is purely a math exercise. The only thing controversial is sometimes the ranking can favor someone who plays more torunaments to skew their numbers.

Baseball is much more subjective. In baseball, we have the pleasure of baseball writers (typically old guys) voting for these awards. Not the best system IMHO..

10/8/124:00 PM

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